Events

  • Out of the past: Film restoration today

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    The United States of America (Bette Gordon & James Benning, 1975)Out of the past: Film restoration today
    Print Generation
    Monday November 26, 2012, 19:30h
    James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall, UCLA campus
    Recent Work From Anthology Film Archives
    Monday December 3, 2012, 19:30h
    Billy Wilder Theater, Hammer Museum, Westwood Village

    Film restoration and preservation are at the core of UCLA Film & Television Archive activities and essential to conserving our motion picture heritage. Restorations also play an increasingly vital role in making old films accessible to modern audiences, whether through public screenings, home video distribution or online delivery. But what constitutes restoration? What do moving image preservationists do? The present series proposes to answer these questions, while discussing ethical issues, such as the status of the original and how digitality might change our perception of historic material. Each evening will be a behind-the-scenes look into contemporary restoration techniques and concerns, featuring newly restored prints and introductions by leading film preservationists.

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  • Xcèntric: The latest US experimental cinema

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    Landfill 16 (Jennifer Reeves, 2011)Xcèntric: The latest US experimental cinema
    Sunday December 2, 2012, 18:30h
    Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

    This programme offers a panorama of very recent works by foremost experimental filmmakers in the United States. It includes pieces of animation, appropriation or documentaries by authors already known to Xcèntric (such as Jennifer Reeves and Robert Todd) and many others who we will discover in this screening.

    - Passage Upon the Plume (Fern Silva, 2011, silent, 7 min)
    - Tokyo-Ebisu (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2010, 5 min)
    - Point de Gaze (Jodie Mack, 2012, silent, 5 min)
    - A Preface to Red (Jonathan Schwartz, 2011, 6 min)
    - Under the Shadow of Marcus Mountain (Robert Schaller, 2011, silent, 6 min)
    - Curious Light (Charlotte Pryce, 2011, silent, 4 min)
    - The Electric Embrace (Norbert Shieh, 2011, silent, 2 min)
    - Craig’s Cutting Room Floor (Linda Scobie, 2011, 2 min)
    - Undergrowth (Robert Todd, 2011, 12 min)
    - Landfill 16 (Jennifer Reeves, 2011, 9 min)

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  • LaborBerlin at Theaterkapelle

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    Les Noctambules (Sophie Watzlawick)LaborBerlin at Theaterkapelle
    Tuesday November 27th 2012, 20h
    Theaterkapelle Friedrichshain
    Boxhagener Str. 99, 10245 Berlin

    LaborBerlin presents a programme of films and film-performances by members and friends. The works cover a wide thematic and technical range, from in-camera improvisation through collage, linolfilm to found footage, all handmade, all analogue, all on film in super-8, 16mm and 35mm.

    Including works by Arbeiten Clara Bausch, Christopher Becks, Anja Dornieden, Oscar de Gispert, Juan David Gonzalez Monroy, Imogen Heath, Jakob Kirchheim, Linn Löffler, Bernd Lützeler, Doireann O'Malley, Deborah S. Phillips, Nadja Tobias, Niko Tscheschner, Sophie Watzlawick.

    Celebrate the beauty of do-it-yourself film with us! Join us for the after party in the Gewölbekeller of Theaterkapelle!
    Party mit Visuals by Nomaden Kino
    Music by DJ St. Bisoux

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  • Ben Russell - Trypps Series

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    River Rites (Ben Russell, 2011)Ben Russell - Trypps Series
    Friday November 23rd, 2012, 20h
    Stadtkino Villach, Villach, Austria
    As part of the K3 Short Film Festival (November 22nd - 25th 2012; Villach, Austria)

    "Using a fabricated Old English word as its guiding principle, this ongoing series of (mostly) 16mm films is conceptually organized around the possible meanings that its title elicits - physical voyages, psychedelic journeys, and a phenomenological experience of the world. Begun in 2005 in a somewhat vain attempt to hold cinema up as a mirror to the live and fully embodied reception of the crazy noise music scene in Providence, Rhode Island, the TRYPPS films quickly expanded their formal and critical language to include the various poles of action painting, avant-garde cinema, portraiture, stand-up comedy, global capitalism, and trance-dance a lá Jean Rouch. While the form of these works varies radically from one to the next, when taken as a whole they can be seen to enunciate what their maker calls "psychedelic ethnography" - a practice whose aim is a knowledge of the Self/self, a movement towards understanding in which the trip is both the means and the end." - Ben Russell

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  • Independent Film Show 2012

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    Independent Film Show 2012Independent Film Show 2012
    Thursday November 8th - Sunday November 11th 2012
    Fondazione Morra (palazzo Ruffo di Bagnara, Piazza Dante, 89 - Napoli)

    Thursday 8 november at 19:30h
    - White film by Inal Sherip - les Frères Lumière Prize set up by European Academy of Arts
    - Matthias Müller & Christoph Girardet curated by Matthias Müller

    Friday 9 November at 19:30h
    - Le premier cercle de Light Cone curated by Emmanuel Lefrant
    - Ex-Machina expanded cinema performance by Les Nominoë

    Saturday 10 November at 19:30h
    - Collection Vivante curated by Emmanuel Lefrant
    - Zoo[trope] expanded cinema performance by Les Nominoë

    Sunday 11 November at 19:30h
    - Cinema Inside Out curated by Karel Doing
    - Darkloupe audio-visual performance by Karel Doing & Michal Osows

    The inexhaustible passion for film frames and the compositional processes of these minute particles in significant structures unites artists, film/video-makers and musicians, represented in the Independent Film Show 12th edition involved in the materialization of visionary and poetic interactive sensory experiences to suggest and amplify new and unexpected relations.

    The first program reveals the incredible creative potential achieved through the selective collecting of images and the brilliant assembly of these immobile and ethereal fragments in imaginative and introspective pathways into the macro cosmos. The films Alpsee (1994) and Phantom (2001), realized by Matthias Müller experimenting with various analogue techniques of filming and composition, illustrate through his distinctive visual vocabulary the transition into childhood, the tensions and moments of calm addressed, and painful educational development. Together with Christoph Girardet, chapters # 4 Why Don’t You Love Me? and # 5 Bedroom of Phoenix Tapes (1999) and the films Locomotive (2008) and Meteor (2011) explore a wide variety of cinematic representations in search of established codes and surprising digressions, reinforcing their creative energy, vitality and emotion.

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  • Intimate visions. The cinema of Chick Strand

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    Soft Fiction (Chick Strand, 1979)Intimate visions. The cinema of Chick Strand
    November 15th & 16th 2012, 20h
    Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

    A contemporary of Stan Brakhage, Bruce Conner and Bruce Baillie, a joint co-founder of the distributor Canyon Cinema in 1961, Chick Strand (1931-2009) was a seminal filmmaker in the West Coast underground. Her films, pieces of poetic abstraction and found footage, perfectly combine the style and technique of avant-garde cinema with ethnographic issues. This programme, selected by Mark Webber, includes Strand’s most important films, in new copies restored courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

    Thursday, November 15, 20h
    - Cartoon le Mousse (Chick Strand, 1979, 15 min)
    - Mosori Monika (Chick Strand, 1970, 20 min)
    - Angel Blue Sweet Wings (Chick Strand, 1966, 3 min)
    - Loose Ends (Chick Strand, 1979, 25 min)
    - Artificial Paradise (Chick Strand, 1986, 13 min)
    - Kristallnacht (Chick Strand, 1979, 7 min)

    Friday November 16th, 20h
    - Soft Fiction (Chick Strand, 1979, 16 mm, 54 min)

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